Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.